Lantronix MPS1-T Printer User Manual


 
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4.4 LPR on UNIX Hosts
The Berkeley remote printing system is supported on many machines, and is simple to
conÞgure.
This section describes how to conÞgure LPR print queues on generic UNIX hosts such as
SUN hosts. There are slight variations in LPR conÞguration for AIX, HP, and SCO hosts,
as will be explained in the following sections.
1. Install a print queue on your host by adding the MPS name and IP address to the
/etc/hosts
Þle:
2. Add the host print queue to the
/etc/printcap
Þle:
The punctuation shown is required, and no extra spaces should be added.
192.0.1.83 MPS_xxxxxx
mps_prt|Printer on LAB MPS:\
:rm=MPS_xxxxxx:\
:rp=MPS_xxxxxx_TEXT:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/mps_prt: